The University Innovation Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of students, received six weeks of online training from the Stanford Design School;

Two hundred students from multiple majors worked in teams to develop solutions to insure uninsured Virginians at the JMU Health Policy Summit. Student teams then pitched their ideas to local candidates for the House of Delegates;

Jim Krauss, formerly of RMH, Michael Dudley from Optima Health, Eric Major from K2M and Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Services Bill Hazel modeled civil discourse during a conversation about health policy sponsored by the Madison Vision Series;

JMU’s Engagement Fellows are currently working with JMU’s IIHHS and Valley Scholars, as well as James Madison’s Montpelier;

JMU was lauded as the model for civic engagement at the Governor’s Millennial Task Force on Civic Engagement Summit on Oct. 27.